How can I fully have faith and trust that God will do what he says w/o doubting?
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You have to know what God says He'll do. What are His promises? You can't exaggerate them to fit a situation. many people do and they end up blaming God because He did keep His word..
Lots of scripture is twisted to appeal to flesh.
Beyond that He is who He says He is... He has a tract record you can read about
Lots of scripture is twisted to appeal to flesh.
Beyond that He is who He says He is... He has a tract record you can read about
Everybody has doubts at one time or another. The best way to put the doubts to flight is to remember and give God thanks for what He has already done for you. You may not know what tomorrow has in store but you can rejoice in what God has done for you to this date. If God has been faithful to you yesterday should you doubt He will remain faithful today and tomorrow?
For the cause of Christ
Roger
For the cause of Christ
Roger
Good morning ManiaStar., Your question is one I struggled with for years as a Christian. Even today I will forget to remember the simplicity as some daily situations in life tend to get very complicated. But thankfully., these problems are not complicated to Jesus.
Will Jesus take care of me? How can I be sure I'm not supposed to be doing SOMETHING right here on my end to get Him to move??? This kind of thinking and relating with God puts it all on us and makes us think and wonder and search and work and think and work and finagle all the many and varied situations and even people in our daily life. What a disaster of confusion!!
Thankfully the Holy Spirit has been teaching me that when I look at His unmerited undeserved love and acceptance of me in Jesus, (grace) it is THEN He sees my faith.
If we are wanting God's promises and His will to come true in our lives we can't depend on our own obedience, service, faith and goodness. We receive His promises and leading when we depend on His undeserved love and favor in Jesus for us. That means we have been given freely in Christ the promises He died to secure on and for us. It's when we look to Jesus and His gift of righteousness on us we start to., "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ"
Eph.2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that is not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. Not only were we saved from hell but we are daily saved (sozo) preserved and made whole. By His grace we have been made whole and we are preserved in Him. It's by grace through faith that God's promises become sure in our lives.
This revelation has changed my relationship with the Lord. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Even if our faith is as tiny as a mustard seed., the Bible says mountains can be moved because we have been given the gift of faith in Christ. When we work....He rests. When we rest... He works.
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Let me ask you a question: To whom have you offered your mind to? When you feel these temptations; either mindfully or desirously, what is your heart saying? What , now that you have asked the Lord in thru belief, has your spirit awoken you to; intuitively, and thru prayer and study of His Word? Thus, we are to place our minds in Him thru the Godhead triune, or in laymen terms, in the Son and the Father thru the Holy Spirit as the Whole of OUR lives as sons and daughters of His..
Now note how I didn't say trust that our minds will agree with Jesus by trusting in faith. This is the devils doctrine that makes us look like wheat, but when asked to show the fruit of the produce, it can only produce black in place of golden brown that real wheat is in color (ref: Matthew 13:24-30 "The Parable of the Weeds").
Jesus tells us two things in Galatians 2:20. One is that we have already died with Him on the Cross as His sacrificial gift to us. This is a fact. And that as we believe, we will, in turn, be made pure by His sacrifice and be made capable of living (not "as if" it is true) but a life that is capable of purity as truth and reality. We, therefore, must experientially develop our understanding and character into living it as true.
Thus, we have crossed over from death unto life: Thus, in the redemptive life (our new creation) we must be real in a onward and upward movement in living a life fully dependent in Him. But this is anything but a life where He lives it without us. He wants us to live it thru Him; a very active involved life; a fully submitted life sharing in the Life of Christ.
"I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, (so, we must die, not just deny, the right to ourselves experientially and accept this death thru revelation that it has already happened to us on the Cross if we are to be in Christ), but Christ who lives in me. (Ok, so now where do we go? On vacation as He lives our life? Smile. No, of course not, let's read on...) And The lifeI now live in the flesh I live (not "for faith" but rather..) by faith in the Son of God (the person of Jesus Christ relationally;onward and upward always in forward motion thru righteous living), who loved me and gave Himself for me (hence as He always first loves us, and guides us spiritually in love and power)." (Gal. 2:20 w/ commentary).
We should battle through our moods, feelings, and emotions into absolute devotion to the Lord Jesus. And not let Satan make us passive then able to take ground mindfully. We must break out of our own little world of experience into abandoned devotion to Him. Think who the New Testament says Jesus Christ is, and then think of the despicable meagerness of the miserable faith we exhibit by saying, “I haven’t had this experience or that experience”! Think what faith in Jesus Christ claims and provides - He can present us faultless before the throne of God, inexpressibly pure, absolutely righteous, and profoundly justified.
Stand in absolute adoring faith “in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God— and righteousness and sanctification and redemption…” (1 Cor. 1:30). Yep, that's what we are in Christ!! How dare we talk of making a sacrifice for the Son of God! We are saved from hell and total destruction, and then we talk about making sacrifices! We are to live a life that is sacrificed to Him, a life that is pleasing to God knowing, as we get to know Him, then, He has always had our best interests in mind and loves us dearly and eternally.
We must continually focus and firmly place our faith in Jesus Christ— not a “church event” Jesus Christ, or a “book-of-the-month” Jesus Christ, but the New Testament Jesus Christ, who is God Incarnate, and who ought to strike us dead at His feet. Our faith must be in the One from whom our salvation springs. Jesus Christ wants our absolute, unrestrained devotion to Himself. We can never experience Jesus Christ, or selfishly bind Him in the confines of our own hearts. Our faith must be built on strong determined confidence in Him. Then our life bears fruit...the fruit of Christ and the Kingdom of God found in us, as the wheat so produces golden brown fruitfulness and not black.
It is because of our trusting in experience, or trusting in faith over having faith in the relationship of God thru Jesus Christ that we see the steadfast impatience of the Holy Spirit against unbelief. All of our fears are sinful, and we create our own fears by refusing to nourish ourselves in our faith in Him. How can anyone who is identified with Jesus Christ suffer from doubt or fear!?
Our lives should be an absolute hymn of praise resulting from perfect, irrepressible, triumphant belief ill regardless of our surrounding circumstances or temptations. For if God is for us, who can be against us?
Now note how I didn't say trust that our minds will agree with Jesus by trusting in faith. This is the devils doctrine that makes us look like wheat, but when asked to show the fruit of the produce, it can only produce black in place of golden brown that real wheat is in color (ref: Matthew 13:24-30 "The Parable of the Weeds").
Jesus tells us two things in Galatians 2:20. One is that we have already died with Him on the Cross as His sacrificial gift to us. This is a fact. And that as we believe, we will, in turn, be made pure by His sacrifice and be made capable of living (not "as if" it is true) but a life that is capable of purity as truth and reality. We, therefore, must experientially develop our understanding and character into living it as true.
Thus, we have crossed over from death unto life: Thus, in the redemptive life (our new creation) we must be real in a onward and upward movement in living a life fully dependent in Him. But this is anything but a life where He lives it without us. He wants us to live it thru Him; a very active involved life; a fully submitted life sharing in the Life of Christ.
"I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, (so, we must die, not just deny, the right to ourselves experientially and accept this death thru revelation that it has already happened to us on the Cross if we are to be in Christ), but Christ who lives in me. (Ok, so now where do we go? On vacation as He lives our life? Smile. No, of course not, let's read on...) And The lifeI now live in the flesh I live (not "for faith" but rather..) by faith in the Son of God (the person of Jesus Christ relationally;onward and upward always in forward motion thru righteous living), who loved me and gave Himself for me (hence as He always first loves us, and guides us spiritually in love and power)." (Gal. 2:20 w/ commentary).
We should battle through our moods, feelings, and emotions into absolute devotion to the Lord Jesus. And not let Satan make us passive then able to take ground mindfully. We must break out of our own little world of experience into abandoned devotion to Him. Think who the New Testament says Jesus Christ is, and then think of the despicable meagerness of the miserable faith we exhibit by saying, “I haven’t had this experience or that experience”! Think what faith in Jesus Christ claims and provides - He can present us faultless before the throne of God, inexpressibly pure, absolutely righteous, and profoundly justified.
Stand in absolute adoring faith “in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God— and righteousness and sanctification and redemption…” (1 Cor. 1:30). Yep, that's what we are in Christ!! How dare we talk of making a sacrifice for the Son of God! We are saved from hell and total destruction, and then we talk about making sacrifices! We are to live a life that is sacrificed to Him, a life that is pleasing to God knowing, as we get to know Him, then, He has always had our best interests in mind and loves us dearly and eternally.
We must continually focus and firmly place our faith in Jesus Christ— not a “church event” Jesus Christ, or a “book-of-the-month” Jesus Christ, but the New Testament Jesus Christ, who is God Incarnate, and who ought to strike us dead at His feet. Our faith must be in the One from whom our salvation springs. Jesus Christ wants our absolute, unrestrained devotion to Himself. We can never experience Jesus Christ, or selfishly bind Him in the confines of our own hearts. Our faith must be built on strong determined confidence in Him. Then our life bears fruit...the fruit of Christ and the Kingdom of God found in us, as the wheat so produces golden brown fruitfulness and not black.
It is because of our trusting in experience, or trusting in faith over having faith in the relationship of God thru Jesus Christ that we see the steadfast impatience of the Holy Spirit against unbelief. All of our fears are sinful, and we create our own fears by refusing to nourish ourselves in our faith in Him. How can anyone who is identified with Jesus Christ suffer from doubt or fear!?
Our lives should be an absolute hymn of praise resulting from perfect, irrepressible, triumphant belief ill regardless of our surrounding circumstances or temptations. For if God is for us, who can be against us?
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When you have no vision from God, no enthusiasm left in your life, and no one watching and encouraging you, it requires the grace of Almighty God to take the next step in your devotion to Him, in the reading and studying of His Word, in your family life, or in your duty to Him. It takes much more of the grace of God, and a much greater awareness of drawing upon Him, to take that next step, than it does to preach the gospel.
Every Christian must experience the essence of the incarnation by bringing the next step down into flesh-and-blood reality and by working it out with his hands. We lose interest and give up when we have no vision, no encouragement, and no improvement, but only experience our everyday life with its trivial tasks.
The thing that really testifies for God and for the people of God in the long run is steady perseverance, even when the work cannot be seen by others. And the only way to live an undefeated life is to live looking to God.
Ask God to keep the eyes of your spirit open to the risen Christ, and it will be impossible for toil to discourage you. Never allow yourself to think that some tasks are beneath your dignity or too insignificant for you to do, and remind yourself of the example of Christ in (John 13:1-17)..
And to Satan, announce your departure from Him and stand on the ground Christ Jesus has afforded you in His Name. Do not let Satan off! Stand in the strength and power of Christ Jesus!
I hope this has been encouraging. I will continue to pray for Christ to encourage you, as well, I am always available too to encourage you in reality and truthfulness as Christ leads me in righteousness. Smile.
. May God Richly Bless you!
Every Christian must experience the essence of the incarnation by bringing the next step down into flesh-and-blood reality and by working it out with his hands. We lose interest and give up when we have no vision, no encouragement, and no improvement, but only experience our everyday life with its trivial tasks.
The thing that really testifies for God and for the people of God in the long run is steady perseverance, even when the work cannot be seen by others. And the only way to live an undefeated life is to live looking to God.
Ask God to keep the eyes of your spirit open to the risen Christ, and it will be impossible for toil to discourage you. Never allow yourself to think that some tasks are beneath your dignity or too insignificant for you to do, and remind yourself of the example of Christ in (John 13:1-17)..
And to Satan, announce your departure from Him and stand on the ground Christ Jesus has afforded you in His Name. Do not let Satan off! Stand in the strength and power of Christ Jesus!
I hope this has been encouraging. I will continue to pray for Christ to encourage you, as well, I am always available too to encourage you in reality and truthfulness as Christ leads me in righteousness. Smile.
. May God Richly Bless you!
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Psalm 84:5, "Blessed is the (wo)man whose strength is in You, Your Highways are in their heart."
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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Psalms 25:20-21, “O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.”[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Psalms 56:3-4, “In the day I am afraid, I trust in You. In Yah, whose Word I praise, In Yah I have trusted; I do not fear; What could flesh do to me?”[/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Psalms 25:20-21, “O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.”[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Psalms 56:3-4, “In the day I am afraid, I trust in You. In Yah, whose Word I praise, In Yah I have trusted; I do not fear; What could flesh do to me?”[/FONT]
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I come from an OCD background. I'm not OCD. (Well, I am obsessive. I just don't have that perfection part of the issue.) My dad is. So, I've done what comes naturally to me -- kept tabs.
I lost track of how many times the Lord has kept his promises decades ago. But I have taken meticulous records of how often he hasn't.
So far, it's 0. Coming up on 46 years with the Lord in April, and it's still 0.
I can't say that gives me perfect faith, but it gives me a little bit of faith. The rest, he provides to me. Ends up, he promised that too!
That, and most the time he takes me through stuff I don't want to go through in the first place, but by the time it's over, (if it ever is), I also notice he's been with me the whole time taking care of me. That experience stuff works too.
I lost track of how many times the Lord has kept his promises decades ago. But I have taken meticulous records of how often he hasn't.
So far, it's 0. Coming up on 46 years with the Lord in April, and it's still 0.
I can't say that gives me perfect faith, but it gives me a little bit of faith. The rest, he provides to me. Ends up, he promised that too!
That, and most the time he takes me through stuff I don't want to go through in the first place, but by the time it's over, (if it ever is), I also notice he's been with me the whole time taking care of me. That experience stuff works too.
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And, poof! Even though you're like that, by the end of whatever is getting you at any given time is over, you're still standing, and the Lord is still keeping you going.
So what if you doubt? Don't we all? (Ummm, if you don't know. We DO.) And yet, he is STILL faithful.
I truly think God has but two lesson plans for his children:
1. I love you more than you'll ever understand.
2. Trust me.
If we aren't getting the first lesson, we're getting the second. AND, when that lesson is over, there are two lessons to be learned in his next lesson plan:
1. I love you more than you'll ever understand.
2. Trust me.
That's it! The entire sum of what the Lord wants us to get. And once we get it in one area of our lives, he hits the same thing in another. And another. And another. And another. 45 years of this, and he's still teaching me the same thing in different ways.
What else do we truly need to know about him? This is what he teaches us, so we're ready when we get to the next life.
You seem to think you alone aren't getting it down quick. NONE of us are. That's why he keeps teaching us the same thing in different ways.
I now get I can trust him for finances. Except, when I don't get it, and he has to show me it in a different way. And he's still working on me trusting him with that whole, "But I'm disabled, Lord" thingy. And don't get me started on how hard it is for me to trust he's going to take care of hubby too. lol
This is it. You are not behind on the lesson plans. You're right where he wants you to be and he's still tutoring you... and the rest of us.
So what if you doubt? Don't we all? (Ummm, if you don't know. We DO.) And yet, he is STILL faithful.
I truly think God has but two lesson plans for his children:
1. I love you more than you'll ever understand.
2. Trust me.
If we aren't getting the first lesson, we're getting the second. AND, when that lesson is over, there are two lessons to be learned in his next lesson plan:
1. I love you more than you'll ever understand.
2. Trust me.
That's it! The entire sum of what the Lord wants us to get. And once we get it in one area of our lives, he hits the same thing in another. And another. And another. And another. 45 years of this, and he's still teaching me the same thing in different ways.
What else do we truly need to know about him? This is what he teaches us, so we're ready when we get to the next life.
You seem to think you alone aren't getting it down quick. NONE of us are. That's why he keeps teaching us the same thing in different ways.
I now get I can trust him for finances. Except, when I don't get it, and he has to show me it in a different way. And he's still working on me trusting him with that whole, "But I'm disabled, Lord" thingy. And don't get me started on how hard it is for me to trust he's going to take care of hubby too. lol
This is it. You are not behind on the lesson plans. You're right where he wants you to be and he's still tutoring you... and the rest of us.
J
Considering you have been here at least two years,and still are doubting God despite encouragement,my first thought is that you haven't yet accepted Jesus as saviour and asked God to save your soul humbly and sincerely,because you can't "let go" and let him take other if you haven't "let him in",doubt to degree can happen but not as much as you have,humble yourself to him and you'll change in time not being troubled so much.
Everyone has moments and times of weakness, don't let anyone get on their high horse and kick you down. The thing is when we are struggling that is when we need to call out in sincerity. Let His will be done. It is of no matter if I believe something that is not His will, it will not happen, in the same way if I believe something that is not in His will it will also not happen. We need to call upon Him and be ready that when the valley of decision is in front of us we make the choice that is inside His will.
Look up at the night sky and tell me how we got here and how significant or insignificant we all are, and yet He has shown Himself to each one of us and knows our name....
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Isaiah 26:4, "“Trust in [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]forever, for in Yah, [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif], is a rock of ages."[/FONT]
Look up at the night sky and tell me how we got here and how significant or insignificant we all are, and yet He has shown Himself to each one of us and knows our name....
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Isaiah 26:4, "“Trust in [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]forever, for in Yah, [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif], is a rock of ages."[/FONT]
The song "The Greatest of All Miracles" by the Gold City Quartet(older days) says in the chorus "But the greatest of all miracles, was when my Jesus saved me,
Yes I know what Jesus did for me".
It's true.
How can you believe with all faith for Jesus to save you, but can't believe for the smaller things?
It might be better to ask yourself, "Do I really believe Jesus saved me"?
I'm surprised somebody hasn't accused you by now of not being saved to begin with. I'm not saying that, because I'm not your judge.
But, it's something to consider when it seems you can't go any further in your relationship with God.
Yes I know what Jesus did for me".
It's true.
How can you believe with all faith for Jesus to save you, but can't believe for the smaller things?
It might be better to ask yourself, "Do I really believe Jesus saved me"?
I'm surprised somebody hasn't accused you by now of not being saved to begin with. I'm not saying that, because I'm not your judge.
But, it's something to consider when it seems you can't go any further in your relationship with God.